Grant Edwards wrote: > You're talking about the case where there's un-ACKed data. > Breaking a link when there's no un-ACKed data (which is what > the OP did) will require an hour or two to timeout _iff_ > keepalive is enabled. If keepalive has not been enabled, a > broken connection with no un-ACKed data will never timeout.
My mistake, Grant. I was under the impression that a blocking send() would wait for an ACK before proceeding, but upon checking the man pages I see that this is not the case. It does seem to make the oft-cited TCP guarantee of data arrival a little weaker however, if you can't necessarily know how many of your sends have succeeded or not. Doubtless I am missing something here, too. Time to dig out my old networking notes, perhaps. -- Ben Sizer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
